Get approved for Amazon Associates after meeting their sales criteria for 3 months! Can finally use their API to fetch product details directly for #atgatt #flightschools etc

Make first $2 from affiliate marketing through Amazon #atgatt #life

Switch to Amazon affiliate links from RevZilla to see if they convert better and remove prices because I think that's against Amazon TOS #atgatt

Move #atgatt back to the cloud because I'm selling my home server (decided it's too much of a distraction vs. just hosting on hetzner/aws) #devops

Recover ATGATT due to some bug in Dokku where config values get corrupted if there are spaces/etc in them by changing the DB password #atgatt #devops

Remove tinyadz because they paid me $0 for my traffic after a month and their ads don't even make any sense for my target audience. Clearly motorcyclists are not going to buy some shitty landing page builder, they want motorcycle things #atgatt

Ask Copilot to convert from Vue 2 to Vue 3 so I can use Astro to statically generate a lot of these routes for better SEO (it only supports Vue 3). Got a lot of fixes to make! #atgatt

Convince motorcycle company to approve my affiliate application and add affiliate links sitewide #atgatt

Get denied for an affiliate deal with a motorcycle company, will try to email them and see if they’ll approve me anyway #atgatt

Apply to be an affiliate partner for motorcycle brand for #atgatt

Add backlinks to other products for extra SEO juice #atgatt

Launch on X and LinkedIn and bsky (already on PH and HN): x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… and www.linkedin.com/feed/update/… and bsky.app/profile/benmakesstuf… #atgatt

Fix missing images not displaying the placeholder image properly #atgatt

Try adding a maker link levelsio style bc this is a product without a landing page and people are probably going to be too lazy to click About -> About Us to see who built it #atgatt

Use AI-generated placeholder image if the bg worker failed to download a product image #atgatt

Copy over all product images to production R2 bucket using Cloudflare's handy migration tool #atgatt

Get API deployed and connected to the DB #atgatt

Swap IPs and finish scraping all data necessary to relaunch #atgatt because they’ve added too much bot protection

Fix helmet, jacket, pants, boots, gloves common importer code to work-around bot detection from Cloudflare + add retries because I'm scraping the shit out of a bunch of websites and I keep getting 403s #atgatt

Get helmet data importer working again with Cloudflare R2 and see helmets rendered in the UI #atgatt